An Ikeja magistrates’ court, on Tuesday, ordered that a 35-year-old man, Femi Afolabi, be remanded in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his three daughters and assaulting their mother.
The Magistrate, Ms Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take Afolabi’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice and adjourned to March 7.
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The police charged Afolabi who resides in Onipanu in Ilupeju area of Lagos State with two counts of defilement and assault.
The prosecutor, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that Afolabi committed the offences sometime in December, 2022, in his residence, and that he was reported to the police by his wife, the girls’ mother.
She said that when the mother of the girls, aged five, eight and nine, got to know, she confronted her husband who got angry and beat her up. (NAN)
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